Walter Dean Myers Quotes

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

Who the hell do you think did it, Martians?

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I just—we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn’t, um—’’ ‘‘Yeah, you’d better not have ummed.

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.

I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

I was just about to ask you the same thing. I know you followed me. Don't look so suprised. It's called a rearview mirror. Are you stalking me for a specific reason?

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea) I didn’t think I was snooping. It didn’t feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn’t it. (Tory)

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.

If someone is trying to frame you, don't you want to know who, what, when, where and why?